Apple have announced a major upgrade to the RAW photography application Aerture. Aperture 3 features over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto ’09, Aperture 3 makes it even easier and faster to organise large photo libraries. Aperture 3 introduces new tools to refine your photos … [Read more...]
Presetpond Launched
Presetpond is a new online community for photographers enabling them to share preset-files for the two popular photo-editing applications Aperture produced by Apple Inc, and Lightroom produced by Adobe Systems Incorporated. … [Read more...]
Installing Presets in Aperture 3
Over the last few days I have been working with Apple Aperture 3. The main motivation for such a move to Aperture from Lightroom is the fact iWork, AppleTV, iPhone and now iPad can sync or access images directly from the Aperture library. The truth is the Apple fanboy in me simply wants everything to work together, after all the ease of user experience is the main reason I … [Read more...]
Ultimate Noise Control with Noise Ninja
I have been struggling with noise on a number of photos I have taken in extreme light situations. From low light landscapes through to live music performances many of my best captures have been blighted with grain and noise. In an attempt to make the best of a bad bunch I generally spend a bit of time working with the images in Lightroom and Photoshop in an attempt to patch one … [Read more...]
Hydra : High Dynamic Range (HDR) Made Easy ?
Over the last couple of years the term HDR has entered the jargon dictionary of most photographers. You hear it mentioned regularly by the guys at Photoshop user, and intensively featured again and again in various magazines at different levels of photography, almost to the point where it needs no introduction. However everyday the art that is photography sees more and more … [Read more...]